Record ID: SOM-1FBF61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A nearly complete copper alloy enamelled Roman symmetrical plate brooch. The brooch is lozenge shaped with four circular lugs on the edge, one at each corner. Each lug has two concentric grooves around its centre. The central lozenge section has one large central cell of the same shape, filled with 16 small blocks of millefiori. Such blocks were formed by cutting slices from a composite glass rod, formed by arranging coloured rods of glass in a pattern, heating them enough to fuse and then stretching them into long thin, composite rods. The pattern seen on this brooch comprises altern…
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8B4350
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy single-loop rectangular buckle frame from the medieval period (c. 14th century). The frame has three transverse grooves on the widened outer edge; two ridges created form a central pin rest. The sides are very slightly curved. The bar is narrowed compared to the outer edge, but continues the proportions of the sides. The pin is missing. The frame has a olive green patina. Dimensions are: Length 13.5 mm. Width 14 mm. Thickness 1.9 mm Weight 0.797g In discussing the type (Meols type C), Egan (2007, 97) refers to similar buckles from late 14th-century contexts i…
Created on: Friday 15th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9791B2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A rectangular belt mount or slide made from copper alloy with scalloped edges. The edges of the plate have semi-circular notches at either end, creating a central block which has two smaller notches on either side. At each end of the plate is a transverse groove. At the back are two integral, rectangular-sectioned attachment spikes which taper gently to rounded ends. One is set flush with the edge of the plate and the other is slightly inset from the end. Both are bent inwards, forming a rectangular aperture. The surface of the fittting has traces of a white metal (tin or silver) coat…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 21st October 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-9A4472
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy seal matrix with a religious inscription.The matrix has a flat oval base with a vertical handle above. The handle consists of a rounded, almost globular centre, and a flattened lozengiform terminal with a central circular perforation. The base is neatly engraved with a design consisting of a frame of a double-stranded lozenge interlaced with a double-stranded square, forming an eight-pointed star. Inside the star are the initials IhC below an abbreviation mark consisting of a horizontal line, bent upwards in the centre and with a cross on top, forming a cross-o…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BF1B42
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete post-medieval cast copper-alloy mount, probably a strap mount. It is elongated triangular in shape, with a rounded knop at the wider end separated by a deep groove. The knop has radial grooves, and the main body has similar longitudinal grooves, with one transverse groove near the knop. There are faint traces of gilding in the recesses together with a red residue. The mount is D-shaped in cross-section, slightly bevelled around a median line. On the flat reverse are two bent integral pointed prongs, located one behind the rounded knop, and the other towards the centre of th…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cannfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2B9F23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Polden Hill bow brooch of Mackreth 2011, 5.b1. Plate 50, Western Group. The wings are semi-cylindrical with capped ends. They house the axis bar which is held in place in pierced holes in the end-caps of the wings. Over the axis bar is a fake spring coil with a chord which passes through a broken pierced crest at the head. The pin is in fact a wire hinged type which is looped around the bar between the two halves of the "spring". The pin has a slight tail which provides the tensioning. The pin tapers gently , but is broken at the end. The head of the bow is steeply …
Created on: Sunday 17th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-3D0451
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, copper alloy, T-shaped bow brooch dating to the first or second centuries AD. The wings are cylindrical but taper slightly towards their terminals. The upper surface of each of the wing terminals is decorated with two vertical incised lines. The wings house an iron axis bar. The hinged pin is missing and there are some iron corrosion products at the ends of the wings and in the notch between them. The bow is D sectioned and is decorated with a longitudinal moulded rectangular ridge. It continues onto the bow where there is a small circular cell, which probably originall…
Created on: Monday 18th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5A8312
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy radiate of the emperor Probus (276-282), dating to c. AD 276-7 (Reece Period 14), VIRTVS AVG, Emperor standing facing right, holding transverse spear in right hand and globe in left) reverse. Mint of Rome, First Series. RIC V (ii), no. 801 (Siscia); Gloucester Hoard (CHRB XIII), no. 1037 (20 specimens) and Rogiet Hoard no. 561 (Rome).
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DOR-0A0023
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy As or Dupondius of an imperial lady, probably of the Severan period. Mint of Rome Date: Roman - c. AD 193 - 235 Diameter: 23.60 g Weight: 3.83g Die axis: 6 Without an image, this record cannot be edited further.
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-C45B84
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 5.c, flat wing ends type, Western Group). The wings are semi-cylindrical with capped ends. They house the axis bar which is held in place in pierced holes in the end-caps of the wings. Over the axis bar is part of a fake spring coil. The chord is missing but would have passsed through the pierced crest at the head. The pin would have been a wire hinged type looped around the bar between the two halves of the "spring". The head of the bow is steeply arched and decorated with moulded plat…
Created on: Monday 17th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2017
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Record ID: DOR-546556
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy personal seal matrix, flat and pointed-oval in shape. There is a raised longitudinal rib on the reverse, with a pierced lug set at the top. The rib tapers downwards, away from the lug. The engraved central motif of the seal is a flowering plant set on a horizontal base, with a large central flower flanked by two smaller ones, leaves to the sides at the base and three pellets to either side of the central stem and two pellets to one side of the central flower. The inscription is set between plain ridged borders, and reads + S' IOhANNIS D'SCOT (Seal of John of Scot.…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2013
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Record ID: DOR-D675E6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast, copper-alloy single-loop buckle frame, sub-triangular with an expanded, rectangular outer edge. The sides of the frame narrow from the outer edge towards the missing bar. There are slightly expanded knops where the bar would have connected to the frame. The bar would probably have been narrowed and offset from the frame.The expanded outer edge or lip was decorated on the front with two groups of transverse parallel ridges flanking a wide undecorated space where the missing pin would have rested. The back is flat and undecorated. The whole buckle is now very corrode…
Created on: Tuesday 4th March 2008
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9B2121
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy finger ring. The band has a rectangular cross-section. The ring is in the form of a belt and buckle and has an relief inscription in roman lettering reading: VNO DIEV: VNO ROY: VNE FOY: V. The language of the inscription is derived from French and translates as: One God: One King: One Faith. (Translation by Laura Burnett, FLO) Geoff Egan comments that although rings such as these are common from the 17th century to the present day, the dog French inscription may have Royalist Civil War-period associations dating this to the mid 17th century (c. 1642 - 1649) Date: Post …
Created on: Saturday 19th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOM-AD05D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, BETA(sic) TRANQVILLITAS, mint of Trier, AD 321. RIC c.f. no. 305 (vol. VII, p. 191).
Created on: Friday 2nd May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B10837
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of early Roman date. The surviving part of the brooch measures 33.4mm by 11.4mm by 13.3mm and weighs 2.6g. It comprises the crossbar (one side of which is damaged), the rearward hook which kept the incomplete chord in place, the curving bow and about half of the spring. The bow is plain and tapers to a point. Very little of the catchplate survives.
Created on: Friday 2nd May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2865F1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
CORONER'S REPORT A hoard of 303 bronze socketed axes, broken socketed axes and socketed axe fragments. A full catalogue has been produced for this hoard but is not offered here; it is available on request from the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum. Rather, the axes, all being similar with one exception, are discussed as a group. All but one of the axes in this hoard appear to be of Type Portland (Bruns pers. comm.), which dates to the Llyn Fawr stage of the Bronze Age (LBA4) (800-600BC) (Needham et al. 1997; O'Connor 2007). Thi…
Created on: Friday 13th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-92E583
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Maximinus II (305-13), GENIO POP ROM, mint of Trier, 307.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-BC6C44
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy radiate of Carausius (AD 286-93) (Reece Period 14), LAETITIA AVG, Laetitia standing left with wreath and anchor. Mint of London, F O//ML. RIC V, pt 2, p. 467, cf. no. 50. This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Friday 20th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-0D5172
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy as of Vespasian (69-79), reverse type: hexastyle temple flanked by S-C, mint uncertain, AD 71-8. RIC II (2nd ed) c.f. 323 & 1239
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0DE0A4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, TR POT III COS II CLE[M], S C, Clementia standing left, holding patera and raising skirt, mint of Rome, AD 148-9. RIC III, c.f. 1275-6
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham', grid reference and parish protected.